For the last few weeks, I've been completely happy. I've got my next PSA in three weeks' time. It may well show my PSA is starting to go up, and the cancer's coming back. Totally to my surprise, I've acquired this sort of Buddhist Zen outlook. Well, the future doesn't exist. I'm well. I'm happy at the moment. I've had a wonderful, exciting life. I've made lots of mistakes. I've trampled on people - yak, yak, yak, as I discuss in my books. But at the moment, today, the sun is shining. I'm very well. It's not that I'm in denial, but I think, well, all right. It may be bad news in three weeks' time, but that's three weeks away. At the moment, I'm well.

I'm the kind of man who, even if the glass is only half full, doesn't lament but goes to fill up the rest.

The power of positive thinking.

I’ve always found Hail Marys to be a great refuge when you’re facing tough decisions and crises of one kind or another.

I’d have Nunc Dimittis in G, followed by Gute Nacht and Be Thou My Vision.

To do more films. I’ve made a few but for some reason I haven’t been asked to do any lately.

I have a horrible capacity to be unctuous to people I want to impress.

I am going a bit deaf and I am hoping that technology is going to come on leaps and bounds and that one day I will hear better.

Entirely comfortable and warm – the edge of it can be white heat, but the best kind is room temperature.

My brother. I was a precious child and had this competitive thing with my older brother, which I don't think he had with me. He was very innovative and I would steal his thunder.